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General
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MetaCrawler is one of the oldest meta-search services, it searches AltaVista, DirectHit, Excite, FindWhat, Google, GoTo, Internet
Keywords, Kanoodle, LookSmart, MetaCatalog, Sprinks (by About) and WebCrawler. MetaCrawler
search results across the Internet and organizes them in a uniform format, eliminating
duplicates and ranking the results by relevance.
The meta-search capabilities include auctions, audio/MP3, Images, Newsgroups, Directories,
etc...
It's a popular meta-search engine.
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Case Sensitive
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No.
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Phrase searching
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Click option "the exact phrase" or enclose the phrase in quotation marks " ", e.g. "like this phrase"
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To require
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Use + immediately before a word, e.g. hyperactivity +children
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To exclude
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Use - immediately before a word, e.g. cats -dogs
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Boolean logic
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AND: between words, e.g. hyperactivity AND children
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OR: between words, e.g. cats OR dogs
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feature.
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Wildcards
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No.
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Sub-searching
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No.
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Field searching
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No.
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"Search" selection
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all of the words: Searches for all the words in any order. Best for
most searches. Also list pages with some of your words (further down).
any of the words: Searches for pages that have one or more of the words present. Note
that this tends to produce a great deal of information. Unless your words are fairly
precise, most of it may not be what you need.
the exact phrase: Searches for the words occurring together, e.g. "Four score
and seven years ago" or "Bill Clinton." MetaCrawler will often find pages
that are close, but not exact, and will report those as well.
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"Search in/for" selection
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The Web: search for web pages.
Directory: search various directories.
Auctions: search over 200 different auction sites.
Newsgroups: search Internet discussion forums.
Files: locate music, videos, images, documents or other files.
Images: find images of any kind using resources from search partner
ditto.com.
Audio/MP3: find mp3, wav and real files.
Multimedia: access to all multimedia content from Singingfish.com and VastVideo.
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